Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions for use of this website being https://stonegatelegal.com.au/ (“The Website“).

This website is the website for Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd ACN 636 805 742.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

By using The Website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you register, or use an online form or contract services from The Website, you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

The Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd terms and conditions are governed by the laws of Queensland and any and all disputes which may arise between a client and Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd will be heard in the Courts of Queensland.

Information on The Website – Terms and Conditions

The information contained in The Website was current at the time of publication and is for general information purposes only. Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd make no warranty as to their accuracy and strongly advise that you seek legal advice. All legal matters are different and a qualified legal professional will be able to tailor advice in relation to your own personal circumstances.

Please contact us for qualified legal advice, or search for a legal professional on the Queensland Law Society website.

Instant Quote Form

By completing and submitting any form on The Website you consent to be contacted by Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd or our partners in relation to your matter.

Collecting Information

The information we collect will be in accordance with our privacy policy.

Appropriate Terms and Conditions information

Most of the legal information on The Website pertains to the laws associated with Queensland, or Australian law. However, this is not always the case. Do not believe that any certain item of legal information pertains to any particular legal system.

For all of the reasons, you should never rely upon any information on The Website, and we advise that you seek professional legal advice before embarking upon any action (or omitting to take any action) which includes or may have legal implications.

Exclusion of warranties, representations and also guarantees

Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd do not warrant, represent or guarantee:

  1. the accuracy from the information published for The Website;
  2. the completeness from the information published for The Website;
  3. that the data published on The Website is up-to-date;
  4. or the information on The Website can be placed on achieve any certain result.

Limits and exclusions associated with liability

Nothing in these conditions will: (a) limit or exclude our or your liability with regard to death or compensation for injuries resulting from carelessness; (b) limit or perhaps exclude our or your liability with regard to fraud or bogus misrepresentation; (c) limit some of our or your liabilities at all that may not be not permitted under relevant law; or (d) exclude some of our or your own liabilities that may not be excluded under relevant law.

To the extent how The Website and the data and services on The Website are provided free-of-charge:

  1. We will not be liable in value of any losses arising away from any event or events beyond your reasonable control.
  2. We are not liable to you in respect of any business losses.
  3. We are not liable to you in respect of any decrease of or damage to profits, income, or anticipated financial savings.
  4. We will not be liable to you in value of any decrease of use or creation. We will not be liable to you in value of any decrease of management time or office time.
  5. We are not liable to you in respect of any decrease of business, contracts, business oriented opportunities or goodwill.
  6. We are not liable to you in respect of any burning or corruption associated with any data, data source or software.
  7. We are not liable to you in respect of any particular, indirect or debt recovery loss or damage.
  8. We will not be liable to you in value of any losses arising away from any acts or omissions of any hosting services provider, payment services provider or other alternative services provider.

Site availability

From time to time The Website terms and conditions or features of the website will be unavailable. Such unavailability may be the result of defects from the website hosting, timetabled or emergency upkeep procedures, or failures of alternative service providers. We don’t commit to being sure that The Website or terms and conditions will be available at any particular time. Additionally, we do not guarantee that The Website will continue to be published.

Interactive attributes

The Website uses interactive features of which allow users to get in touch with us and our partner law firm. You acknowledge that, because of this limited nature associated with such communication, any legal assistance you might receive using such facility will probably be incomplete and could be misleading. Any legal assistance you might receive using such facility does not constitute legal services and accordingly should not be relied upon. No solicitor-client relationship should be created through the use of The Website.

Our Partners

In addition to protecting Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd and it is members and staff members, the limitations associated with liability in these terms and conditions shall protect the following persons in value of any claims manufactured by any Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd customer or perhaps any user on The Website: (a) any Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd law practice partner; (b) any dealer of any appropriate document or documents offered on The Website; (c) any dealer of other legal content offered on The Website; and (d) any officer, employee, partner or member of any person known as in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c). For this avoidance of doubt, this Section will not affect this terms of any solicitor-client relationship expressly agreed and also entered into between a web site user and any law practice.

Licence to make use of The Website

Unless in any other case stated, we or your licencors own this intellectual property rights from The Website and material on The Website. Subject to this Terms and Conditions and licence below, each one of these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You could view, download with regard to caching purposes solely, and print pages from The Website on your own personal use, subject to the restrictions determined below and somewhere else in these terms and conditions of use. You mustn’t: (a) republish material using The Website (including republication with another website); (b) market, rent or sub-license material from The Website; (c) show any material from The Website in community; (d) reproduce, identical, copy or in any other case exploit material with The Website for any commercial purpose; (e) edit or otherwise modify any material on The Website; or (f) redistribute material using The Website, except for content specifically and expressly offered for redistribution (such while our newsletter).

Where content is specifically offered for redistribution, it could only be redistributed within your organisation. This is a strict Term of Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd.

You may access our Feed by following this instruction on The Website. By accessing our Feed you accept these terms and conditions. Subject to your own acceptance of these terms and conditions, and notwithstanding the restrictions determined above, we grant to you a non-exclusive non-transferable non-sub-licensable licence to produce our RSS feed in unmodified style on any non-commercial website owned and handled by you. It is a condition of this licence that you include a credit for us and hyperlink to The Website on each website page where the Feed is published (in such form even as may specify every once in a while, or if we don’t specify any certain form, in an acceptable form). We may revoke this licence whenever they want, by giving your own written notice associated with revocation.

Suitable use

You must not use The Website in ways that causes, or might cause, damage to The Website or impairment from the availability or accessibility from The Website; or at all which is illegal, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or connected with any unlawful, against the law, fraudulent or dangerous purpose or activity. You must not use The Website to copy, retail, host, transmit, mail, use, publish or deliver any material which is made of (or is related to) any malware, computer virus, Trojan’s horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious software applications. You must not conduct any methodical or automated info recovery activities (including without having limitation scraping, info mining, data extraction and also data harvesting) on or with regards to The Website without having our express published consent. You should never use The Website to transmit or send unsolicited business oriented communication. You should never use The Website for just about any purposes related to marketing without our express written agreement.

Free 30 Minute Consultation

If you take advantage of the free 30 minute consultation then you agree that this does not constitute legal advice, and in general information only. 

The content of the telephone consultation is intended only to provide a general summary of information to you. It is not intended to be comprehensive nor does it constitute legal advice. We would need to be instructed formally, and enter into a formal written costs agreement with our firm, and take proper instructions / read the documents – before we can provide legal advice. It is important that you do not act on the general information provided during the free consultation without obtaining proper legal advice from us or another legal practitioner.

There are often important (and short) timeframes involved in legal matters. A law firm cannot advise you about your matter or time critical steps relating to this dispute until they are formally engaged to act for you. If you miss any time-critical dates then you may lose your legal rights.

Restricted admittance

Access to certain parts of The Website is fixed. We reserve the right to restrict having access to other areas of The Website, or in fact The Website, at our convenience. If we provide you with or you generate a password to help you access restricted parts of The Website or perhaps other content or perhaps services, you need to make sure that that password is kept confidential. You must notify us in writing immediately if you notice any unauthorised use of your account or password. You have the effect of any activity with The Website arising away from any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held chargeable for any losses arising from such a problem. You must not use any other person’s user identification and password to get into The Website. We may disable your account on The Website at our sole discretion without warning or explanation. We reserve all rights in relation to this.

Third party websites Terms and Conditions

The Website includes hyperlinks to other websites possessed and operated through third parties. These links are not recommendations. We haven’t any control over this contents of alternative websites, and you agree that we accept no responsibility for the use or for any loss or damage which could arise from your use of them.

Licence to make use of free templates

You must credit Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd on all templates and derivatives thereof (in the form specified on this relevant template). Furthermore, you must add a visible hyperlink to https://stonegatelegal.com.au/ on any website the place where a derivative is published. Subject to this particular, you are engaged to determine: (i) the circumstance and link text for your hyperlink; and (ii) this page on online world. https://stonegatelegal.com.au/ to which the hyperlink points.

You mustn’t republish any design in amended style, or publish derivatives of a template including any footnotes or brackets appearing from the templates. You have no rights to market or distribute this templates or derivatives thereof as well as to license to others any rights from the templates or derivatives.

You acknowledge that we do not provide any legal services to you relating to the templates, and Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd will not be liable in respect of your use of the templates. We don’t warrant the templates comprehensiveness or precision; nor do we not plan to ensure that this templates remain available or that they’re kept up-to-date. The disclaimers of liability determined in any of these conditions apply in full with regards to our free templates.

You acknowledge and consent to subscribing to a newsletter if you download any of our free templates.

Prices, payments Terms and Conditions

The charges will be as specified on The Website from time to time. We may change the charges at our sole discretion by posting the charges on The Website. If you do not wish to pay charges at the new level, the your remedy is to terminate the membership according to the terms. All charges are exclusive of GST.

Professional services are generally priced on The Website.

More limitations of the liability

The disclaimers of liability outlined in any of these terms and conditions apply in regards to member services.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd and any associated party and undertake to keep us indemnified next to any losses, loss, costs, liabilities and bills (including without restriction legal expenses and also any amounts compensated by us to a third party in settlement of an claim or dispute) sustained or suffered arising from any breach through you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising from any claim that you have breached any supply of these terms and conditions.

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to our other rights, if you breach these terms and conditions of use at all, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions of use at all, we may: (a) send you more than one formal warnings; (b) temporarily suspend your having access to The Website; (c) permanently restrict you from accessing The Website; (d) block computers with your IP address from accessing The Website; (e) contact your online services provider and request they block your having access to The Website; (f) bring court proceedings against an individual for breach of contract or otherwise; (g) suspend and/or erase your account with The Website; and/or (h) erase and/or edit any or all of your current content.

Where we postpone or prohibit or block your having access to The Website or a component of The Website, you must not take any activity to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or perhaps blocking (including without having limitation creating and/or having a different account).

Intellectual Property

Stonegate Legal Pty Ltd and also our logo are trademarks belonging to us. We give absolutely no permission for using these trademarks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights. The other listed and unregistered trademarks on The Website include the property of their own respective owners. Except stated otherwise, we do not endorse and so are not affiliated with from any of the holders of such rights and thus we cannot allow any licence to exercise such rights.

Variance

We may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to using The Website from the date of the publication from the revised terms and conditions on The Website.

Assignment

You hereby agree that people may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any or our rights and/or requirements under these conditions. You may certainly not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise cope with your rights and/or requirements under these conditions without obtaining your prior written agreement.

Severability

If any of these terms and conditions is determined through any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the remainder provisions will continue in effect.

Exclusion of alternative rights

Subject to this preceding paragraph, these terms and conditions are for the benefit of you, and are not meant to benefit any alternative or be enforceable by any alternative. The exercise individuals and your rights with regards to these terms and conditions is just not subject to this consent of any alternative.

Entire understanding

Subject these terms and conditions, together with our privacy, constitute the overall agreement between an individual and us with regards to your use of The Website, and supersede almost all previous agreements in respect of your use of The Website.